Quotes About Boredom

The definition of adventure depends upon how boring your life is.

People who say life is precious don't spend much time on line at the airport.

I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom.

How does one get bored of life?

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

?s I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.

Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.

I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.

The only way to live a long life is in a state of constant boredom.

there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.

Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.

Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.

Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.

I see a man's life is a tedious one.

I sympathize with the guys who went to go see The Phantom Menace and convinced themselves that it wasn't as bad as it was. Phantom Menace is worse, I would argue, than Star Trek ever was, but we were kind of in denial. There were some beautiful shots of the Enterprise and we got to see some Klingons, so it wasn't a total disaster, but in large part it was pretty boring.

But because kids today have so little free time, and because they're always surrounded by media, they don't explore what's off the beaten path. They want their fun to be quick and easy. The art of being bored is lost." . . . There's no question that Klauber's findings are

For someone who has ADD, being bored is like being asphyxiated. It cannot be endured for more than a minute or so. When bored, the person with ADD feels compelled to do something immediately to bring the world back up to speed. Adrenaline

I had nothing better to do, had I, except recount my money and repaint my finger-nails and die of frustration?

It is true for everyone, even infants. They hate to feel bored or overwhelmed.

Pour retrouver l'amour, il faut libérer du temps psychique et du temps de disponibilité. Il faut s'ennuyer un peu.

Trying to explain all the steps was boring and exhausting. I kept imagining Ivan getting bored, or not believing me, and it kept sounding like I was putting the blame on other people, like Svetlana and her mom. When I tried to put the blame on myself, it was also tedious and boring, and in the end I gave up trying to explain anything.

There are but two states to the primitive mind: warring and boring.